METRO Webinar: Overcoming FLUs - Practical Advice for Furloughs, Layoffs, and Uncertainty
2020-09-09 16:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Ping. The email hits your inbox. “We regret to inform you that…” Receiving news of a temporary or permanent separation is one of the unfortunate aspects of modern employment. While there’s only so much preparation one can do until it actually happens, we will share our personal experiences being impacted by employment separations. In this session, you’ll learn tips for navigating new financial circumstances, as well as ways to keep your job search moving forward under challenging circumstances.
As the Director of Library Assessment, Maurini Strub manages, leads, and collaborates on projects focused on gathering, analyzing, and using high-quality, actionable data to determine the value of library services, programs, learning spaces, and resources. She has a strong background in user-centered design, and recent assessment work has focused on spaces, services, and information literacy learning outcomes.
Tony Zanders is an award-winning software entrepreneur and library technology executive. He is the creator of Skilltype – a professional development platform for the library and information science community. Zanders is also the inaugural entrepreneur in residence at the Boston University Libraries, where he provides executive counsel to the University Librarian during the academic strategic planning process while designing new approaches to recruitment, retention and training.

Tuesdays at Ten!
2020-09-08 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
To encourage staying connected with each other during this time, we invite you to join us online Tuesdays at Ten!
Staying connected is important during this unprecedented time. CLRC is looking to stay engaged with our members by offering the library community an opportunity to chat, discuss, and check-in with colleagues around the region. Please join us for our weekly online Zoom meeting every Tuesday. Call in to say hi, ask questions, provide updates, and talk to your fellow library people!
Join URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81744068630
For those joining by phone: 1-646-876-9923
Meeting ID: 817 4406 8630

2020 Digital Services User Group Meeting (Virtual)
2020-09-03 13:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This year we’re taking our annual Digital Services User Group Meeting online. This meeting will be an opportunity to get updates on our various repository platforms and services–including: New York Heritage Digital Collections, New York State Historic Newspapers, Empire Archival Discovery Cooperative, Digital Dark Archive, Access & Digitization Grants, as well as the services we offer through the CLRC DigLab. We’ll take a deeper dive into the Digital Dark Archive, explaining the process and benefits of preserving digital files. Finally, we’ll gather feedback on CLRC’s digital services that will inform our 2021 – 2026 Plan of Service.
If you’re a CLRC member and work with digitization projects or promoting access to cultural heritage resources, we hope you’ll join us for this meeting! We’ll start with a basic overview, so we also welcome folks who are interested in becoming involved in digitization or access projects. If you have any questions about this event, please feel free to email Ryan Perry at rperry@clrc.org
Agenda:

Overview: Ryan Perry, CLRC’s Digital Collections Librarian, will give a brief overview of CLRC’s digital services, and how they fit together
Updates: Ryan will give an update on NY Heritage, NYS Historic Newspapers, EmpireADC, and our other digital services. He’ll review recent changes to the platforms, as well as what’s in store for the future. Any and all questions are welcome.
Digital Dark Archive mini-workshop: Ryan will give an overview of digital preservation and how CLRC can help maintain your digital files for longterm storage
Plan of Service Focus Group: A discussion of priorities for digital services. How can CLRC better serve our members in this area? What should we be focusing on for CLRC’s 2021-2026 Plan of Service?

LILRC Webinar: Gender Queer - A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
2020-09-02 15:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Copresented by LILRC Health Sciences Information Committee, SCLA Health Concerns Committee, and NCLA Health Services Committee.
Meet Maia Kobabe, author of Gender Queer: A Memoir (Lion Forge, 2019) for a discussion of the book, the 2020 ALA Alex Award winner and 2020 Stonewall-Israel Fishman Non-fiction Award Honor Book.
Copies of Gender Queer: A Memoir are available to read through your library and on Hoopla.
About Gender Queer: A Memoir
In 2014, Maia Kobabe, who uses e/em/eir pronouns, thought that a comic of reading statistics would be the last autobiographical comic e would ever write. At the time, it was the only thing e felt comfortable with strangers knowing about em.
Now, Gender Queer is here.
Maia’s intensely cathartic autobiography charts eir journey of self-identity, which includes the mortification and confusion of adolescent crushes, grappling with how to come out to family and society, bonding with friends over erotic gay fanfiction, and facing the trauma and fundamental violation of pap smears.
Started as a way to explain to eir family what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, Gender Queer is more than a personal story: it is a useful and touching guide on gender identity—what it means and how to think about it—for advocates, friends, and humans everywhere.
(Excerpt from the LionForge website.)
About Maia Kobabe: Maia Kobabe is a nonbinary, queer author and illustrator from the Bay Area, California. Eir first full length book, GENDER QUEER: A MEMOIR, was published in May 2019. Maia’s short comics have been published by The Nib and in many anthologies including THE SECRET LOVES OF GEEKS, FASTER THAN LIGHT Y’ALL, GOTHIC TALES OF HAUNTED LOVE, SHOUT OUT, ADVANCED DEATH SAVES and BE GAY, DO COMICS. Before setting out to work freelance full-time, e worked for over ten years in libraries. Eir work is heavily influenced by fairy tales, homesickness, and the search for identity.

Tuesdays at Ten!
2020-09-01 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
To encourage staying connected with each other during this time, we invite you to join us online Tuesdays at Ten!
Staying connected is important during this unprecedented time. CLRC is looking to stay engaged with our members by offering the library community an opportunity to chat, discuss, and check-in with colleagues around the region. Please join us for our weekly online Zoom meeting every Tuesday. Call in to say hi, ask questions, provide updates, and talk to your fellow library people!
Join URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/87311052817
For those joining by phone: 1-646-876-9923
Meeting ID: 873 1105 2817

LILRC Webinar: Managing Remote Library Teams
2020-08-28 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
This webinar will offer concrete strategies for supporting remote staff, building successful online collaboration, facilitating online and phone meetings, and managing workflows and projects. This was a workshop offered by the Library Leadership and Management Association.
Presenter: Carli Spina, Head of Research & Instructional Services, SUNY’s Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY

LILRC Webinar: Appalling Archives - Working with Offensive Collection Materials
2020-08-27 14:00 - 15:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
What should be done with images, documents and objects that put us face-to-face with the ugly side of history? Panelists Regina Feeney (Freeport Memorial Library), Melanie Cardone-Leathers (Longwood Public Library), Claire Bellerjeau (Raynham Hall Museum), and Nicole Menchise will discuss how their organizations, past and present, have used these materials to promote an open dialogue about uncomfortable subjects through responsible access and public programs. Themes include slavery, racism, antisemitism and torture.

SENYLRC Webinar: Privacy In & Out of the Library
2020-08-27 13:00 - 14:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
In this session we’ll examine some of the things you can do in your library to increase privacy without implementing new technologies. Instead of talking about online solutions such as software upgrades, password management, and security, we’ll learn about real-world tactics both old and new — from drafting powerful privacy policies to implementing new ways of getting users their holds. The goal of this session is to help library workers understand that positive privacy practices are within their reach and give them meaningful ways of attaining them. The tools we will go over will be both appropriate for personal and professional use.
Outcomes include:
Creation of an individualized risk assessment profile
Understanding of privacy tools that are immediately available
Empowerment to advocate for improved privacy-forward solutions in your library
About the trainer:
T.J. Lamanna is an adult services librarian in New Jersey. His professional focus is on privacy and neutrality in libraries. A member of both the New Jersey Library Association, the American Library Association, and Library Freedom Project he has served on many committees working to improve privacy in libraries. He is excited to be able to share some of this work with you, especially as he works on crafting information on non-technical privacy practices you can easily apply to your own library!

WNYLRC Webinar: Trauma-informed Librarianship
2020-08-26 10:30 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
As libraries move to more interactions rather than transactions, developing Trauma-informed care (TIC) approaches incorporate key principles to ensure that direct service and organizational supports are attentive to how trauma affects individuals and communities. By developing trauma-informed service systems, organizations such as libraries can implement care approaches that address the lived and stated needs of staff, providers, and people seeking services. Participants will identify how to facilitate TIC strategies to mitigate the impact of traumatic stress by developing an understanding of the signs and symptoms of trauma, barriers and challenges to care provisions and ways to enhance empathic engagements. Participants will develop personal and organizational self-care strategies and ways to sustain TIC into the organizational culture and practices.
Objectives:

Participants will be able to provide a definition of trauma that includes collective traumatic stress, historical trauma, and complex trauma.
Participants will be able to understand the term “trauma informed care,” and its relevance in organizational culture, and the Six Principles of TIC
Conceptualize organizational strategies to move TIC forward in your library

This workshop will be online. Registrants will be emailed with the Zoom link one day prior to the meeting.
About the Presenter:
Caroline Sharkey is a licensed clinical social worker, psychotherapist, and Program Coordinator/Clinical Supervisor for the TILT (Trauma Informed Library Transformation) program at the Athens Public Library in Athens, Georgia. She has 24 years working with youth, families, and communities to address trauma in the fields of education, social work, and community development. She has led trauma-informed organizations, trained agencies, and facilitated more than 350 community and professional presentations. Caroline is currently pursuing her doctorate in social work at the University of Georgia.

Tuesday at Ten
2020-08-25 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
To encourage staying connected with each other during this time, we invite you to join us online Tuesdays at Ten!
Staying connected is important during this unprecedented time. CLRC is looking to stay engaged with our members by offering the library community an opportunity to chat, discuss, and check-in with colleagues around the region. Please join us for our weekly online Zoom meeting every Tuesday. Call in to say hi, ask questions, provide updates, and talk to your fellow library people!
Join URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/82710802022
For those joining by phone: 1-646-876-9923
Meeting ID: 827 1080 2022

NYLA ASLS Briefinar Series
2020-08-24 11:00 - 11:30, 2020-08-17 11:00 - 11:30, 2020-08-10 11:00 - 11:30, 2020-08-03 11:00 - 11:30 | NY, United States
Ever wondered what makes Special Libraries so special? NYLA’s Academic and Special Libraries Section (ASLS) is conducting a series of short interviews with librarians from various Special libraries to give us all a sneak peek into this fascinating area of our profession. Learn more about the collections, clients, and daily operations of New York State’s special libraries and the interesting people who run them. Interviews will be broadcast live and recorded for future viewing. These are SHORT and easy to fit into your busy day! That’s why we call them “Briefinars”. Each interview will be less than 30 minutes, including time for questions from the audience.
The Strong Museum of Play – July 20th
Russian History Foundation – July 27th
The Frick Art Reference Library – August 3rd
Center for Inquiry Library – August 10th
Adirondack Experience Library – August 17th
Albany Institute of History and Art – August 24th

SIG: CNY Digital Inclusion Virtual Meetup
2020-08-21 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
The CNY Digital Inclusion Coalition is a group of community stakeholders in Central New York working together to create a unified voice in support of digital inclusion. Join us to discuss the digital divide in CNY and the resources available in the community for affordable Internet and technology and digital literacy training.
To learn more visit the website of the Central New York Digital Inclusion Coalition.

CLRC LA SIG - Library Assistants & Support Staff Meet Up in Zoom
2020-08-20 15:00 - 16:00, 2020-08-03 15:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
CLRC has opened a communication network among our region’s Library Assistants, Paraprofessionals and Support Staff through a Special Interest Group (LA SIG).
Our interests include:
* recognizing all library support staff employed in CLRC member libraries
* furthering the professional development & job enrichment of support staff
* enhancing the professional image of support staff within the library community

Participation is open to all library support staff, regardless of title.
Meeting connection instructions will be emailed to registrants.
Contact Anna Dobkowski with any questions.

LILRC Webinar: What's New with Medical Interlibrary Loans? - Updates on DOCLINE and EFTS
2020-08-19 11:00 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Learn about recent updates to DOCLINE and EFTS (Electronic Funds Transfer System) from Erin D. Latta NDCO Coordinator, SEA, NDCO.
About Erin D. Latta:
In her work as the National DOCLINE Coordinator, Erin ensures that affiliated and unaffiliated health professionals, researchers, librarians, and the public have equal access to biomedical and health information and provides assistance to DOCLINE participants with their day-to-day use of the system.

LILRC Webinar: Ask An Archivist - Create a Virtual Walking Tour with StoryMaps
2020-08-18 12:00 - 13:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
A start-to-finish look at creating “Haunted Huntington” – a walking tour that village visitors can follow virtually. From choosing suitable locations, researching stories, finding primary sources, using the ArcGIS StoryMaps software, and ‘walking the walk’, Nicole Menchise will show you how to create a project that you or your institution can share online.

Tuesdays at Ten!
2020-08-18 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
To encourage staying connected with each other during this time, we invite you to join us online Tuesdays at Ten!
Staying connected is important during this unprecedented time. CLRC is looking to stay engaged with our members by offering the library community an opportunity to chat, discuss, and check-in with colleagues around the region. Please join us for our weekly online Zoom meeting every Tuesday. Call in to say hi, ask questions, provide updates, and talk to your fellow library people!
Join URL: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81108644462
For those joining by phone: 1-646-876-9923
Meeting ID: 811 0864 4462

Webinar: Learning About Cultural Humility & Implicit Bias - Understanding Our Responsibility
2020-08-17 10:00 - 11:30 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
Cultural humility urges us to engage in critical, consistent self-reflection and critique to understand that being patron-centered is vital to moving through an equitable profession. This webinar will provide an overview of cultural humility, understand the importance of cultural humility in librarianship, adopt a cultural humility framework, delving deeper into how implicit bias affects how library staff perceives and interacts with patrons, and how to mitigate biased responses.
About the Presenter:
Twanna Hodge (she/her/hers) is the Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Librarian at the University of Florida, George A. Smathers Libraries. She holds a BA in Humanities from the University of the Virgin Islands and an MLIS from the University of Washington. She is the National Conference of African American Librarians XI Conference Programming Committee co-chair, Spectrum Scholarship Juror, Association of College and Research Libraries Residency Interest Group – Social Media and Communications team leader and more. Her research interests are diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility issues and efforts in the LIS curriculum and workplace, library residencies and fellowships, cultural humility in librarianship, and the retention of minority library staff in librarianship. She is a 2013 Spectrum Scholar and 2018 ALA Emerging Leader.
**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for one hour and 30 minutes of contact hours.

RRLC Tech Camp 2020
2020-08-17 - 2020-08-20 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Tech Camp 2020 is going virtual!
Join us August 17-20, 2020 for four half-days of interactive online learning!

Registration is now open for our annual Rochester Librarian Tech Camp conference! This FREE event is open to all school, public, academic, and special library staff!
Through a variety of online sessions, learn from industry professionals on topics related to technology, education, and collaboration (TEC) in library services and practices. Attend all of the sessions or just register for the ones that fit your schedule and learning needs best!
Conference attendees may earn up to 9.5 hours of continuing education credit. NOTE: Attendees will need to register for each session they plan to attend. Sessions will not be recorded.
Conference Schedule Overview
Monday, August 17

Information Literacy: Real Skills Our Students Need to Fight for Democracy | 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. | Session Registration
Truth Online: Inspiring Information Literacy | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Session Registration
Green Engineering Design Projects & Resources | 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. | Session Registration

Tuesday, August 18

Allyship and Racial Equity in the Children’s Library | 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. | Session Registration
Health Issues in the Headlines: Learning to Read Between the Lines | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Session Registration

Wednesday, August 19

Customize Destiny Discover | 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. | Session Registration
Donalyn Miller’s 40 Book Challenge/NFL Draft Mash Up! | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Session Registration

Thursday, August 20

Transforming Interest into Impact: Citizen Science and Crowdsourcing in Your Library | 10:30 – 11:30 a.m. | Session Registration
Best Practices for Working With Teachers This Fall | 2:00 – 3:00 p.m. | Session Registration

If you have any questions, contact Tina Broomfield.

SCRLC Webinar: Academic Libraries in an Extraordinary Time
2020-08-13 10:00 - 11:00 | Online via Shindig, NY, United States
Description:
How is higher education responding to the global pandemic as well as the mobilization against antiblack racism? What role have libraries played, and how are they changing as a result? This presentation begins by examining the events of an extraordinary 2020, which saw libraries participate in a sudden migration away from in-person interaction while engaging racism in society and their history. We continue by exploring trends and plans for the next academic year, as colleges and universities decide to either resume remote education, reopen in some way, or hybridize the two. What challenges do we face as we seek to rethink our academic mission and operations? How are libraries supporting remote and HyFlex work? And what happens when 2020 accelerates previous trends acting upon the academy? Are we seeing a truly new, 21st century library emerge?”

Speaker: Bryan Alexander is an internationally known futurist, researcher, writer, speaker, consultant, and teacher, working in the field of how technology transforms education. Full bio here.If you have any questions in advance for Bryan, please enter them in this Google Form.

Register below and we will send you a link to the webinar by August 11th.

ESLN Webinar: Academic Reopening Panel
2020-08-12 10:30 - 12:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join us for a panel of academic librarians and administrators who will discuss their plans for reopening libraries when semesters begin this fall.
Panelists include:
* Gerald Beasley, Carl A. Kroch University Librarian at Cornell
* Janet H. Clarke, Associate Dean, Research & User Engagement at Stony Brook University Libraries
Fantasia Thorne-Ortiz, Library Department Chair at SUNY Onondaga Community College
* Michelle Young, Dean of Libraries at Clarkson University.
Some questions for the panel include:
* How do you ensure equity for students?
* What unsolved questions about reopening have come up on your campuses?
* How are you dealing with staffing while keeping proper protocols in place?
* What do we do about course reserves?
* If you are not reopening the physical location, how are you continuing to offer 100% customer service satisfaction?
* How flexible is your collection development policy and finances due to pressure for e-resources?

METRO Webinar: Privacy Audits at the Library
2020-08-11 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Looking to understand how your library is protecting the privacy of your patrons? Wondering how you might identify areas for improvement in safeguarding sensitive information?
Join a webinar with Bill Marden (New York Public Library) and Erin Berman (Alameda Country Library) to hear how your library can audit its online and offline records, resources, databases, and more.

CLRC RS SIG - Resource Sharing Special Interest Group Meet Up
2020-08-11 15:00 - 16:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
CLRC has opened a communication network among our region’s resource-sharing, technical and access services library staff through a Special Interest Group (RS SIG)?
We each have unique department workflows, challenges and concerns but are similar in believing in the core library value of sharing.
Some of CLRC’s RS SIG interests include:
* familiarizing members with CLRC Resource Sharing services including ILL,
medical Information reimbursement, cataloging and delivery
* providing updates to subscription services such as OCLC, RDA and Docline
* providing an outlet for support from CLRC and member libraries
* furthering the professional development of resource sharing staff through
workshops and webinars
Join us for our next get-together.
Meeting connection instructions will be emailed to registrants.
Contact Anna Dobkowski with any questio

CDLC Webinar: Library Security
2020-08-11 09:30 - 11:00 | NY, United States
All are welcome to join this virtual program sponsored by CDLC’s Preservation Interest Group!
Library security is all about protecting patrons, property, and valued collections. The first course of action is the development of policies and procedures and implementing them into the daily work of your organization. Guest speaker Sarah Schmidt, Director of Special Collections & Archives, Union College, will lead the discussion. Sarah has over twenty years of experience working in large academic libraries and is a current member of the Rare Books and Manuscript Section of the American Library Association’s Security Committee.

METRO Webinar: Racism, Capitalism, and Libraries
2020-08-10 16:00 - 17:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Join April Hathcock, Dave Ghamandi, and Emily Drabinski for a discussion on the connections between racism and capitalism. We’ll discuss the extent to which these concepts are intertwined and, indeed, inextricable. We’ll identify modes of rising up against both these concepts, and detail why we need to dismantle our economic system in order to repair the injustices that are visited upon individuals based on their race, class, and/or gender. And, as always, we’ll look to the library as a locus for working through these issues.

Webinar: Book Clubs - One Way to Connect in Times of Social Distancing
2020-08-10 10:00 - 11:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Webinar Description:
Virtual Book Clubs can be the great connector between the library and diverse members in the community, even during the time of little human interaction. Learn tips and best practices to reduce uncertainty and build confidence in conducting a virtual book club, with marginalized populations: individuals experiencing homelessness, youthful offenders, and older adults.
About the Presenter:
Pamela McCarter is the Equity Initiative Leader/Outreach Coordinator with Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. Her efforts at the library are geared to develop and promote equitable & inclusive programs for marginalized citizens in our community. She also leads diversity, equity, inclusion, and social equity efforts for the library. With more than 20 years’ experience working with youth, adults, older adults, and non-traditional library customers, she also champions the importance of equitable library access and opportunities for Charlotte’s under-served populations.

**All participants will have the option to request a certificate of attendance for one contact hour.

LILRC Webinar: Ask An Archivist - Torn Paper Repair for Archival Collections
2020-08-08 12:00 - 13:00 | Online Via Zoom, NY, United States
Learn how to repair tears in documents and maps using conservation-level methods and materials.
